Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Archive Regenerative Medicine, Stem Cell Biology
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2026
July
06,
2026
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06:00 AM
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Presentations at International Society for Stem Cell Research Meeting Include Stem Cell Therapies for Eye Disease, Back Pain, Brain Disorders, and Research in Space
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January
15,
2026
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Astronaut Peggy Whitson, PhD, has spent more time in space than any astronaut in America. She recently visited Cedars-Sinai as part of its Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series.Whitson, a biochemist with more than 38 years of space and science …
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January
13,
2026
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai has been awarded funding to develop an artificial intelligence-based platform that predicts drug toxicity before clinical trials begin, making trials safer for patients.More than 30% of clinical trials fail due to adverse drug …
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January
12,
2026
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
New scientific methods could one day render animal studies—the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 years—obsolete. Clive Svendsen, PhD, executive director of the Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai, is …
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2025
December
11,
2025
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14:48 PM
America/Los_Angeles
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded Cedars-Sinai researchers more than $20 million to study potential treatments for heart failure and an inherited type of heart disease.CIRM, a taxpayer-funded state …
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December
01,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai is partnering with Exobiosphere, a company that has developed scientific hardware to automate biomedical research in space and on Earth. Using this hardware, Cedars-Sinai investigators will send experiments to Haven-1, which is set to …
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October
09,
2025
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12:06 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Patients with mouth injuries from trauma or surgery, or those requiring dental work to fix receding gums, could potentially have new options in the future, thanks to a study launching at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s.The researchers will use stem …
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September
03,
2025
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
School is in session for more than 860 students, postdoctoral researchers, medical residents and fellows enrolled in Cedars-Sinai’s newly established Health Sciences University (HSU). They are the first to enroll in the new Chuck Lorre Allied Health …
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August
28,
2025
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
“Young” immune cells created by Cedars-Sinai investigators reversed signs of aging and Alzheimer’s disease in the brains of laboratory mice, according to a study published in the journal Advanced Science. The immune cells, which were produced from …
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August
18,
2025
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators are aiming to transform stem cells into the first heart and brain organoids to be created in space. Their experiments will travel aboard a mission to the International Space Station that is scheduled to lift off from the …
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June
24,
2025
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Using stem cells from patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness as well as effective treatments.In a study …
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May
22,
2025
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13:59 PM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute launched the Cedars-Sinai Center for Space Medicine Research on May 22—and marked the occasion with a visit from NASA astronaut and microbiologist Kate Rubins, PhD.“The Center for …
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April
24,
2025
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai is a leading transplant center, with patient outcomes that consistently meet or exceed national averages. One continuing challenge, however, is the need to suppress transplant patients’ immune systems to prevent their bodies from …
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April
18,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute is marking its 15th anniversary by further expanding its commitment to research, development of cell-based human models and therapies, and education with three new leadership …
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February
25,
2025
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A multidisciplinary team of Cedars-Sinai investigators has used a novel single-cell proteomics approach to better understand the differences between naturally occurring adult heart cells and heart cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells. …
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February
24,
2025
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06:32 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Catherine Jayasuriya thought it was strange her then-6-year-old son, Dusty Brandom, seemed to fall down more often than other children and couldn’t keep up with his siblings. That year, 1998, Jayasuriya took Dusty to several doctors, one of …
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February
21,
2025
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02:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A unique protein designed by Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators can cross the protective blood-brain barrier safely and deliver therapy directly into cancerous tumor cells, a preclinical study shows. The findings, which could help clinicians target …
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2024
November
14,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators are one step closer to manufacturing stem cells in space, which could speed up the development of new medical therapies on Earth. The first published data from the experiments conducted on a private space mission appeared …
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October
24,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Clinicians, researchers and the public are invited to learn about stem cell and gene therapies being developed throughout California at the 7th Annual Alpha Clinics Network Symposium, hosted by Cedars-Sinai on Oct. 25.“This meeting isn’t just for …
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September
12,
2024
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute is creating a resource laboratory to help advance stem cell-based technologies throughout Cedars-Sinai and across California. The institute will serve as a hub for the development …
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August
02,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai is planning its first-ever attempt to produce stem cells in space and its fourth launch of stem cell experiments to the International Space Station. The NASA-funded launch is scheduled for Aug. 3 at 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT.“We will be …
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June
12,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Clive Svendsen, PhD, executive director of the Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute and professor of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai, is developing new treatments and models for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …
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February
23,
2024
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11:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have discovered why some injured kidneys heal while others develop scarring that can lead to kidney failure. Their findings, detailed in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science, could lead to the development …
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February
01,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Chemotherapy can be toxic to heart cells. To help protect the hearts of cancer patients, Cedars-Sinai investigators have created a three-dimensional “heart-on-a-chip” to evaluate drug safety. In a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Lab on …
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2023
December
12,
2023
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15:30 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Infusions of potentially therapeutic cells derived from the heart are safe for people with pulmonary arterial hypertension, a form of high blood pressure that occurs in the blood vessels of the lungs and typically affects middle-aged women, …
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December
06,
2023
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11:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new Cedars-Sinai study might have cracked the mystery surrounding the cause of a specific type of back pain.Almost 40% of the adult population experiences low back pain due to degenerating disks in the spine, but medical science hasn’t understood …
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November
14,
2023
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07:27 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Investigators from the Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai are advancing stem cell technology to treat degenerative diseases of the eye. In one recent study, they determined the optimal dose and surgical method for …
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October
25,
2023
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08:54 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have joined with colleagues from seven regenerative medicine institutes in the Los Angeles region to form a new working group that will share resources and maximize the impact of state funding.“The goal of this group is to …
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September
19,
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
In 1998, scientists reported being able to derive cells from human embryos that could develop into almost any cell in the body. In 2007, the field took a huge leap when scientists discovered they could reprogram human adult skin cells to act like …
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September
05,
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Investigators from the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute and Cedars-Sinai Cancer have collaborated to co-develop and test a new version of the chemotherapy workhorse doxorubicin. Their study, published in the …
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